Our Team

Meet Our Board:

Joanna Chiu (赵淇欣) – Board Chair and Editor

Joanna was recently a Beijing-based correspondent for AFP, covering politics, civil society and legal affairs in China. She has also served as China and Mongolia correspondent for German news agency DPA, and in Hong Kong, she reported for the South China Morning Post, The Economist and The Associated Press. Besides working closely with fellow NüVoices members to expand our network internationally, she loves her job as deputy managing editor of Star Vancouver, co-leading a multimedia newsroom dedicated to enterprise and investigative stories that matter. She has written for many other outlets including The Guardian, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Newsweek, Quartz and GlobalPost. Website: www.joannachiu.com Twitter: @joannachiu

Alice Xin Liu – Vice Chair and Translation Director

Alice Xin Liu is a writer and translator living in Beijing. Born in China, she left aged seven and was educated in Britain, graduating from Durham University studying English Literature. Since arriving in Beijing in 2007 she has worked as a translator for the Guardian, China Editor for Index on Censorship, editor and translator at the Financial Times-affiliated Danwei.org, and as Managing Editor of bilingual literary magazine Pathlight: New Chinese Writing, editing the work of literature in translation from Chinese to English. As a literary translator Alice has translated two books of Chinese literature: The Letters of Shen Congwen (Yilin Publishing House) and The Problem with Me: And Other Essays on Making Trouble in China by Han Han (Simon and Schuster). Her freelance writings have appeared in n+1, Granta, the Guardian, Asymptoteand numerous other places.

Dominique Fong (余琛怡) – Chief Financial Officer and Editor

Dominique works as a reporter for the Wall Street Journal, based in Beijing. She writes about one of Chinese people’s favourite topics: the property market. Her stories over the last year and a half have chronicled China’s gravity-defying housing boom, worries over debt in a cooling market, the relentless flow of Chinese money into overseas property and the security troubles of Beijing’s tallest tower. She’s also interested in how China’s urban areas develop into sprawling megacities and contribute to economic growth. Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dominiquefong/ Twitter: @dominiquefong

Jessie Lau – Online Editor-in-Chief

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Jessie has always been drawn to telling stories that explore human rights, identity and society in Asia. Now pursuing master’s degrees in international affairs at the London School of Economics and Peking University, her research centres on identity politics and race-based affirmative action in China and Southeast Asia. Previously, she was a news reporter with the South China Morning Post covering Hong Kong and China. She specialised in writing multi-platform and narrative features on social issues, and has covered a variety of topics from illegal housing, underwater climate change and gender discrimination to the city’s massive pro-democracy protests. Website: www.laujessie.com Twitter/Instagram: @_laujessie

Lijia Zhang (张丽佳) – Editor

Lijia is a factory-worker-turned writer, social commentator and public speaker. One of the few Chinese who write regularly in English for international publications, her articles have appeared in The Guardian, The South China Morning Post, Newsweek and The New York Times. She is the author of the critically acclaimed memoir Socialism Is Great! about her rocket factory experience and her debut novel Lotus is on prostitution in contemporary China. Lijia has lectured at many conferences, institutions and universities around the world, including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford. She is a regular speaker on the BBC, Channel 4, CNN and NPR. She lives in Beijing. Website: www.lijiazhang.com Twitter: @zhanglijia64

Te-Ping Chen (陈德平) – Editor

Te-Ping is a writer based in Philadelphia, where she covers work and work culture for the Wall Street Journal. She was previously based in China, where she reported numerous features for the Journal on topics ranging from China’s criminal justice system to its quest to build a better rice cooker. Prior to joining the Wall Street Journal, she worked for the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in DC. Her stories have been recognized by the Overseas Press Club, as well as the Society of Publishers in Asia.

Laurie Burkitt – Editor

Laurie is a former Wall Street Journal reporter who covered the rise of China’s consumers and the companies that have attempted to capture their growth. In addition to her economic coverage, she has written extensively on China’s dismantled “One Child Policy” and enjoys finding lighthearted tales to show off China’s more humorous side. She worked previously at Forbes magazine and the Washington Post and served as a Fulbright scholar in Beijing, working with China’s disabled students. Twitter: @lburkitt

Christina Larson – Editor

Christina is an award-winning American journalist who writes about science, environment, technology, and the human side of Asia’s economic boom as Global Environment & Science Correspondent for The Associated Press. She was a former China technology correspondent for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News and a contributing correspondent for Science magazine. Her reporting from Asia on the environment, climate, politics, and culture has also appeared in the New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, Wired, The New Republic, California Sunday Magazine, Scientific American, Nature, Technology Review, Smithsonian, Fast Company and Slate. Website: http://www.christina-larson.com/bio/ Twitter: @larsonchristina

Isabella Steger- Editor

Isabella is a reporter and editor for Quartz based in Hong Kong. She writes about Hong Kong and China, but also keeps an eye out on Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia. She previously spent almost six years at the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, writing about everything from finance to commodities to Hong Kong’s political drama. She is a student of a fair few languages, to varying degrees of fluency. Website: https://qz.com/author/isqz/ Twitter: @stegersaurus

Sophie Lu – Editor, Podcast Coordinator

Sophie is the head of China Research at Bloomberg New Energy Finance. Also a fan of science fiction and fantasy writing, she works in energy market analysis, crisis management, strategy and risk management consulting, focus on cleantech and energy finance in China. Twitter: @SLEnergy

Katie Stallard-Blanchette – Editor

Katie is a writer and foreign correspondent with experience reporting from more than 20 countries, currently working on a book about the use of wartime history in contemporary China, Russia, and North Korea. Previously based in Beijing as head of Sky News’ Asia Bureau, her work has taken her to Pyongyang and the DMZ, out into the disputed waters of the South China Sea, and to the front line of the battle for the southern Philippines city of Marawi, where she reported under sniper fire from ISIS-linked militants. She was previously based in Russia, where she led the channel’s coverage of the conflict in Ukraine, and Vladimir Putin’s annexation of Crimea. Twitter: @katiestallard

Rachel Morarjee – Strategy Consultant

Rachel is director of the Economist Corporate Network, the Economist Group’s advisory network and executive briefing service. She has lived in Beijing continuously for the last three years, having begun her international media career in China in the late 1990s. Immediately prior to joining The Economist Group, Rachel worked as the Reuters Breakingviews’ China columnist, covering financial risk and China’s recent overseas investment splurge. Before moving back to China in 2013, Rachel worked as a foreign correspondent for over two decades, writing for the Financial Times in London, Moscow and Afghanistan. Twitter: @morarjee

Chenni Xu – Publicity Consultant

After seven years working in China, Chenni recently relocated to New York, where she works in corporate communications at Ant Financial. Chenni has a passion for the cultural and non-profit sectors, and enjoys the visual and performing arts outside of work. She is a coordinator at NüVoices’ chapter in New York. Twitter: @ChenniXu

Sophia Yan – Development and Programming Coordinator

Sophia Yan is China correspondent for the Telegraph Media Group. Her work examines the global impact of the country’s rapid and complex rise, focusing on government, economy, human rights, gender equality and innovation. Highlights include leading live coverage of China’s annual legislative meetings from Tiananmen Square and the World Economic Forum in Dalian, as well as interviewing venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee, filmmaker Zhang Yimou, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and football club Inter Milan director Steven Zhang. Sophia was previously a correspondent for CNBC in Beijing and filed from Japan as an Abe Journalist Fellow. She has also worked for CNN, Bloomberg, and the AP based in Hong Kong, Washington DC and Honolulu. Website: www.sophia-yan.com/ Twitter: @sophia_yan